Sa Re Ga Ma Pa is a highly popular Indian Television singing competition and reality show on Zee TV channel. The show was founded by Gajendra Singh in 1995. It has served as a platform for budding and struggling singers from across the nation - and beyond - to realize their dreams. The show was renamed as Sa Re Ga Ma Pa Challenge and public voting system was introduced in 2005. Debojit Saha was the winner of the Sa Re Ga Ma Pa Challenge 2005. Aneek Dhar won the last season, Sa Re Ga Ma Pa Challenge 2007. Sa Re Ga Ma Pa Challenge 2009 was the 3rd installment of the Sa Re Ga Ma Pa Challenge series. The show got started on July 04, 2008 and was aired every Friday and Saturday at 10 p.m. It was hosted by Aditya Narayan, son of well-known Indian playback singer Udit Narayan. It was the 5th public voting competition in the "Sa Re Ga Ma Pa" series. The show was judged by Asha Bhosle, the well-known Indian playback singer and four popular Bollywood music composers – Aadesh Shrivastava, Shankar Mahadevan, Pritam Chakraborty and Himesh Reshammiya. Auditions were held in various cities of India such as Mumbai, Bangalore, Kolkata, Ahmedabad, Delhi etc. in May-June 2008. Auditions for the show were also held in various foreign countries like USA, U.K., Pakistan, U. A. E. etc. The contestants have been divided into 4 groups or gharanas : Jai Ho, Rock, Lakshya and Dhoom. The mentors were Aadesh Shrivastava for Jai Ho, Himesh Reshammiya for Rock, Shankar Mahadevan for Lakshya and Pritam Chakraborty for Dhoom. The contestants were as follows: Rock Gharana   Vaishali Mhade (Winner) Asma Mohammad Rafi (Eliminated on December 19, 2008) Zaheer Abbas (Eliminated on December 12, 2008) Tarun Sagar (Eliminated on October 31, 2008) Sunvinder Singh (Eliminated on August 30, 2008) Fareed Ahmed (Eliminated on August 29, 2008) Manisha Karmakar (Eliminated on August 23, 2008) Jenice Sobti (Eliminated on August 22, 2008) Pallavi Suri (Eliminated on August 16, 2008) Darshana Menon (Eliminated on July 26, 2008)     Dhoom Gharana   Yashita Yashpal (Finalist) Debojit Dutta (Eliminated on December 26, 2008) Shujat Ali Khan (Eliminated on October 24, 2008) Mitika Kanwar (Eliminated on September 26, 2008) Arshad Mohammad (Eliminated on August 30, 2008) Prachi Shah (Eliminated on August 09, 2008) Rashi Ragshree (Eliminated on July 26, 2008)         Jai Ho Gharana   Shoumen Nandi (Finalist) Faraz Butt (Eliminated on October 03,  2008) Deepali Sathe (Eliminated on September 06,  2008) Anupama Malhotra (Eliminated on September 05,  2008) Shashi Suman (Eliminated on August 29,  2008) Sayan Chaudhauri (Eliminated on August 23,  2008) Pooja Goswami (Eliminated on August 02,  2008)         Lakshya Gharana   Pratibha Singh (Eliminated on January 2, 2009) Sara Raza Khan (Eliminated on November 7, 2008) Kaushik Deshpandey (Eliminated on October 17, 2008) Naina Saxena (Eliminated on October 10, 2008) Jeffery Iqbal (Eliminated on July 26, 2008) Snehandhu Naskar (Eliminated on July 12, 2008)     Eklavya Gharana   Shueli Sammadder (Eliminated) Anurag Girish Dhoundeyal (Eliminated) Medha Krishna (Eliminated) Noor- Al- Ain Wahid (Eliminated) Farhan Zaidi (Eliminated) Imran Abbas (Eliminated) Divya Kumar (Eliminated)     A Brahmastra round was held on September 12, 2008 and September 13, 2008 where the nine eliminated contestants - Sunvinder Singh, Prachi Shah, Fareed Ahmed, Tarun Sagar, Manisha Karmakar, Shashi Suman, Shueli Sammadder, Divya Kumar and Asma Mohammad Rafi competed against each other in order to return to the main competition. Vaishali Mhade, winner of Zee Sa Re Ga Ma Pa Marathi competition was introduced in the show as a new contestant on September 19, 2008. Asma Mohammad Rafi and Tarun Sagar returned to the main contest on September 19, 2008. They joined the Rock Gharana. Grand Finale was held on January 24, 2009. Top three finalists selected for the grand finale were Vaishali Mhade, Yashita Yashpal and Shoumen Nandi. Vaishali Mhade was declared the winner of Sa Re Ga Ma Pa Challenge 2009 on January 24, 2009. Yashita Yashpal and Shoumen Nandi were finalists.

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